Sir Philip Sidney, Arcadia. Same idea in Moore, Irish Melodies. Washington Irving, Bracebridge Hall, Volume I, p. 213. An adaptation of Cicero, De Senectute, 26; and Seneca the Younger, Epistles, 120; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 911-17.https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/World